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Imagine being a small business owner who manages a company almost entirely online. You communicate with clients, process payments and organize meetings all over the Internet. Overseeing a company this way involves navigating incalculably many log-in ...

Chris Reynolds, a 56-year-old resident of the small town of Media, Pa. has been on a roller-coaster ride of sudden ultra-wealth and spectacular losses -- all in the space of a day. Reynolds, a PayPal customer who uses the service to buy and sell item...

After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin, a number of protests took place across the United States. Zimmerman claimed he killed the teen in self-defense in Sanford, Fla., in February 2012. He was charged with second-deg...

Though he claimed he didn't want to give anyone advice, famous actor and acclaimed weirdo John Malkovich was full of it when he took to Reddit for an AMA on Wednesday. Not only did the Being John Malkovich and Con Air star claimed weight in on best p...

It's been more than 16 months since the most recent issue of popular, unofficial Reddit magazine, The Redditor, hit the digital newsstands. And for its talented creators and thousands of fans, that's been too long. In August, the eighth edition of th...

A fight broke out on a New Jersey boardwalk, and a guy sporting Google’s wearable computer was there to capture it all with just his eyeballs. On July 4, Chris Barrett, founder of PRServe and a Google Glass explorer, covertly filmed the first arrest ...

After centuries of excess and exposure, France is finally exercising some modesty -- at least when it comes to the location of its intelligence agencies. The headquarters for France's Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) has been added to...

Jay-Z can now add at least one more to his list of 99 problems. Two weeks ago, the rapper and entrepreneur announced that he was dropping Magna Carta Holy Grail -- his 12th studio album -- on July 4 via an Android app exclusively for a select number ...

Technology is coming of age in Samoa, it seems. The island nation’s government reached out to its citizens to create a 3D mapping tool that will be used in the formulation of environmental initiatives and to help in times of natural disasters. The ma...

Stars of ITV soap opera Coronation Street -- one of the most-watched television programs in Britain -- were caught promoting fake goods on Twitter. The sting was part of an investigation into advertising practices carried out by Dispatches, a current...

It doesn’t take a film expert to recognize the conservatism of Disney cartoons. It took until 2009 for the first African-American Disney protagonist to appear onscreen, and before Brave’s Merida could be inducted into the Disney Princess Hall of Fame...

YouTube is celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on its YouTube Spotlight channel as Pride Month comes to an end. The special programming began just one day after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the Defense of Marriage...

Facebook shadow profiles. You may have seen the term crop up on tech news sites this week, and it may given you the feeling it's a nefarious privacy violation -- or the first fun feature that Facebook has introduced in years. But, seriously: Are shad...

UPDATE: Wendy Davis and the Texas Democratic Party confirmed that Senate Bill 5 is dead. #SB5 failed to pass the Senate.— TX Democratic Party (@TXDemParty) June 26, 2013 This afternoon, as the viewers gradually trickled in to the Texas Tribune's YouT...

Star Wars has become the first major motion picture to be translated into a Native American language. NPR chronicled the story of a Navajo family in New Mexico trying to keep the language alive in their home, so their children will speak their cultur...

Most of us might take hearing for granted, but one 3-year-old is a reminder that it's still a miraculous thing. Grayson Champ was born deaf. Until three weeks ago he wasn't able to hear anything because he's missing cochlear nerves, which help us pro...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) wanted to make a big impression when he voted against a controversial bill to make it more difficult for women to have abortions. He Vined his "nay" vote, making him most likely the first member of Congress to do so. Swa...

The Double Rainbow Guy has a new sight to behold -- and it's a lot more deadly than a post-shower sky. Paul "Bear" Vasquez first noticed the wildfires making their way through central California and Yosemite National Park on Sunday -- part of what's ...

Candy Crush is a cruel mistress. She keeps you coming back for more, but then just as swiftly, and seemingly out of nowhere, she puts the breaks on. Candy Crush teases you, only going so far and then putting up arbitrary timeouts and lollipop limits....

Vine, Twitter's video sharing service, has one of the hottest communities in the world of social media. And, of course, people are trying to make money from it. The fledgling network has caught fire since its January debut, boasting more than 13 mill...

If you click through enough online dating profiles, and you begin to wonder whether any singles on the Internet have a brain. It's usually not the profile writer's fault; summarizing yourself in a few paragraphs is no easy task, and more often than n...

Until recently, Matthew Hanson had been the media point of contact for Snapchat, Inc. Seems like a pretty good gig for someone who only recently received a degree in public relations, right? The only problem: He doesn't actually work for the company....

The way we pay for goods has transformed over the years -- from barter to skins, gold-backed currencies to fiat money. In the past couple of decades, however, it has taken another turn: to stateless digital currency. Once the work of science fiction ...

Buckle your seatbelts. Lower your harnesses into place. Keep your arms and legs inside at all times. Ready? OK, press play. As the summer season approaches, traveling carnivals and amusement parks will once again open their doors to the annual influx...

You can find inspiration anywhere these days -- even in YouTube comments. Since launching last month, the YouTube Comment Theater has scoured the notoriously trollish comments sections of popular music videos to find the perfect scripts for their dra...

Have you ever karaoked so badly that your country banned YouTube to prevent national embarrassment? A humiliating video of a performance by Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon, taken in 2007 but put on YouTube in May, is thought to be the reason the ...

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Easter Eggs have long been a staple in video games, TV shows and even movies. They're hidden nods to the audience by the designers, inserted to reward superfans who take the time to look for them. In YouTube's Geek Week Easter Egg hunt, you don't win...

Most of us might take hearing for granted, but one 3-year-old is a reminder that it's still a miraculous thing. Grayson Champ was born deaf. Until three weeks ago he wasn't able to hear anything because he's missing cochlear nerves, which help us pro...

The way we pay for goods has transformed over the years -- from barter to skins, gold-backed currencies to fiat money. In the past couple of decades, however, it has taken another turn: to stateless digital currency. Once the work of science fiction ...

It's finally happened. Kickstarter users have said "No thanks!" to a celebrity's film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci's Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 f...

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